America must get beyond myths about Islam

It is something to have gone 10 years without an Islamic attack of similarly gigantic proportions to those of Sept. 11, 2001, but it is not enough.

That’s because the decade we look back on is marked by a specifically Islamic brand of security from jihad. It was a security bought by Bush and Obama administration policies of appeasement based in apology for, and irrational denial of Islam’s war doctrine, its anti-liberty laws, and its non-Western customs.

As a result of this policy of appeasement -- submission -- we now stand poised on the brink of a golden age.

Tragically for freedom of speech, conscience and equality before the law, however, it is an Islamic golden age we teeter upon. It’s not just the post-9/11 rush into Western society of Islamic tenets and traditions on everything from law to finance to diet that has heralded this golden age, although that’s part of it.

More important is the fact that our central institutions have actively primed themselves for it, having absorbed and implemented the central codes of Islam in the years since the 9/11 attacks, exactly as the jihadists hoped and schemed.

Take the U.S. military.

In Afghanistan, our forces are now “trained on the sanctity of the holy book [the Koran] and go to significant steps to protect it,” as the official International Security Assistance Force website reported last year.

Are they similarly trained to take “significant steps” to “protect” other books? Hardly. But it’s not merely the case that U.S. troops have become protectors of the Koran in the decade following 9/11.

“Never talk badly about the Qur’an or its contents,” ISAF ordered troops earlier this year. Did the Pentagon restrict language about “Mein Kampf” or the “Communist Manifesto”?

They, too, were blueprints for world conquest that the United States opposed. Of course not. But the Koran is different. It is protected by Islamic law, and that’s enough for the Pentagon.

Not incidentally, ISAF further cautioned troops to direct suspects to remove any Korans from the vicinity before troops conduct a search -- no doubt for the unstated fear that infidel troops might defile the protected book.

“None may touch the Koran but someone in a state of ritual purity,” the Islamic law book “Reliance of the Traveller” declares. And “ritual purity,” naturally, is a state no non-Muslim can achieve under Islam.

Since when did Uncle Sam incorporate Islamic law into military protocols? Since 9/11.

Take the State Department.

In July, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a collaborative effort between the United States and the OIC, newly repackaged as Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (it used to be “C” for Conference).

The get-together, planned for Washington, is supposed to implement a nonbinding resolution against religious “stereotyping” (read: Islamic “stereotyping”) that passed last March at the United Nations Human Rights Council (so-called).

Such “stereotyping,” of course, includes mentioning links between Islamic doctrine and Islamic terrorism. This makes this U.S.-led international effort nothing short of a sinister attempt to snuff free speech about Islam.

Which also sounds like a U.S.-co-chaired assault on the First Amendment. This treachery on the part of the U.S. government also happens to be part and parcel of the OIC’s official 10-year-plan.

Since when did Uncle Sam get in the business of doing the bidding of the OIC? Since 9/11.

Ten years after the Twin Towers collapsed in a colossal cloud of dust and fire, the air has cleared but the appeasement and the Islamization go on. Thus, a golden age begins, but unless we throw off this mental yoke of submission, it cannot be our own.

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